The long-awaited Minerals Management Service’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement on Cape Wind has been released. Unfortunately, project opponents have shamefully misrepresented its conclusions.

This is the fourth time that a federal or state agency has compiled a comprehensive review of Cape Wind. And like the previous three, the Minerals Management Service’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement verifies important public benefits of Cape Wind while finding negligible impacts from the array of arguments that the opposition group has thrown against this project for seven years.

Having abandoned many of its previous arguments, the opposition group has now focused its advertising and public relations campaign on the faulty claim that Cape Wind would greatly increase electricity prices. Oil prices have quadrupled and natural gas prices have doubled since Cape Wind was proposed in 2001. Where will these prices be over the next 30 years?

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